Word: dears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Editor, The Student Vagabond: Dear...
...that his image on the screen will speak to each individually as if in real life. His speech will begin: "Now that I am dead, I claim the right to speak to you impartially. ..." He will point out faults and virtues of one & all, concluding: "And now, my dear nieces, nephews and friends, I will bore you no longer. ... To save unpleasant lawsuits my solicitors will now read you a will in similar terms which you will find drawn up, testified and witnessed in correct legal manner...
...youth of 25. This impression is rapidly broken down by the exultant whoops with which he greets his friends and acquaintances in theatre lobbies and other public places. Broadwayfarers were still repeating last week a typical Beaton bonmot applied month ago to a famed, garish nightclub personality : "My dear, how too, too vomitous!" In his suite at the Ritz last week orchidaceous Mr. Beaton received reporters anxious to learn a few facts about a young man who has in the past three years sketched or photographed most of the famed beauties of Britain and the U. S., has written dozens...
...camera than he could at an office desk. To blunt questions as to what his father's name is, what he does in The City, Photographer Beaton blushed, "My father is Scotch," said he. "His business is wholesale-something to do with coal and lumber. Oh dear, this is frightfully embarrassing." When Cecil Beaton was ten, the Scotch-wholesaler father presented him with a 3A folding Kodak. Cecil has used it ever since-the same one. Pictures which he skillfully took with it interested the editor of the Sketch. He gave an exhibition, received commissions at $500 apiece (post...
...sucklings that roar at you like any Anglo-Indian colonel, have emerged for many a year babblings that have made their author's name a trademark for this kind of humor. Wodehouse fans regard his lyrics for the Oh!-musicomedies (Oh, Boy, Oh, Lady, Lady! Oh, My Dear!) as best of their kind since the late Sir William Schwenk Gilbert's. Wodehouse once wrote five librettos at the same time, for shows that appeared simultaneously. Baldish, florid-faced, 49, he lives in London, but last spring visited the U. S., went to Holly-wood on a new departure...